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Sarde
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Message 1 of 15 (89810)
03-02-2004 2:53 PM


Hello all,
Just joined this forum. I am Sarde, 26 years old, a student to become a high school teacher. I am an agnostic.
I want to share the link with you that convinced me once and for all that the Bible is anything but the inerrant Word of God:
Rejection of Pascal's Wager
When I was registering, I was asked to provide a signature (or quote), but I don't see it coming back anywhere. What's up with that?
[This message has been edited by Sarde, 03-02-2004]

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Brad McFall
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Message 2 of 15 (89814)
03-02-2004 3:03 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Sarde
03-02-2004 2:53 PM


What is deceptive to me is the failure to recognize in the pressure of water the debt to Pascal logically that is a part of genetics. Boole recognized it for generation after Galvani-Volta but the moderns only heard about the data relations not the equity it might generate. That goes unrecognized today. I will be cognizing this as long as there is shaft of light coming thru any window that Newton reflected on. Einstein resisted a commonplace replacing of our need to know how charges are distributed. The 2nd law of thermodynamics may be rewritable in past and clicks that was not possible but in the physical intution of Einstein's relief of a framework and reference to Mach but I would rather do this work than speculate in it. Christians may be more sensitive to the genius behind a particular use of mathematical induction. I bet Galton knew this of Pascal but we fear eugenics instead only allow the written word to span something only thought traverses. That would be wrong. Is is not possible to immediately carry over a critique of fellow Christian to any person whomsoever. If one is not a skeptic/doubter any longer this may be recievable.

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Sarde
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Message 3 of 15 (89816)
03-02-2004 3:10 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by Brad McFall
03-02-2004 3:03 PM


?
I don't know what the hell you are talking about. Must be because I'm not a Christian. *grin* I don't know shit about Physics.

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Brad McFall
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Message 4 of 15 (89821)
03-02-2004 3:25 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Sarde
03-02-2004 3:10 PM


Re: ?
Pascal did an excellent job of exposing the mind of the mathmatician but because physics is so mathmatical. A. Pias?(physicist a Rockefellar Univ) thought that Einstein's use of parallelization was ONLY mathematical but it depends I think on the clock as well so even physicists may not be as demanding on the difference. So it might also have nothing to do with Christianity at all. Pascal demonstrates the use of mathematical induction but as mathematician this could be the same quality as Russel rejecting Cantor's claim of demontrability of a proof. Einstein's point was that it is possible to non-psychologically display the mathaticians thought process but not necessarily the physicsits without some idea about the physical world. Pascal was doing his stuff by simply putting propositions in different places on a page before thinking of them but today we have complicated data space that are out here in some unknown order that it is hard when speaking in general to not mistake a physical change for a formal one only. I hope this helps. Brad.

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NosyNed
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Message 5 of 15 (89834)
03-02-2004 4:18 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Sarde
03-02-2004 3:10 PM


Two things (well, 3 or some number)
1) Welcome aboard. There is at least a couple of teachers around here you might enjoy seeing what they have to say.
2) You have to click "show signature" at the botton of the edit screen and do it every single time, it doesn't stay turned on.
3) Most of us (all?) don't understand a darn thing Brad is saying. But you must admit he has quite a talent. Try writing like that yourself.

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mike the wiz
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Message 6 of 15 (89895)
03-02-2004 7:38 PM


Maybe Brad is saying that Pascal's wager is not necessarily relevant to a Christian or Christianity. I got that feeling, but I could be wrong.
The major claims of Christianity are demonstrably untrue and,
on balance, it has brought more harm than good to the world.
That amused me.
Can you show me how Jesus is untrue, if you agree with the claim. I know, prove a negative right? But it is your link atleast. How on earth has anyone or can anyone demonstrate that Christ does not live? You cannot demonstrate Christianity as untrue, if you think you can then you are completely removing the testimonies of 33% of the world, and, you are treating a faith like it is a science.
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Sarde
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Message 7 of 15 (89959)
03-03-2004 3:29 AM


Jesus
I never said that I agree with all that is said on that page. I think many of the words attributed to Jesus are very true. I wish all people would live by those words. I'm just not so sure Jesus uttered all of those words. I think Jesus was 'adapted' to fit Christianity (as devised mostly by St. Paul), and not the other way around.
What I think is definitely not true, is the central idea of Christianity, namely that Jesus 'died for our sins'. It's a concoction.
I have been very attracted to Christianity and I wish it were true. But I cannot ignore some of the glaring contradictions and weird assumptions. I like Jesus though. Love the story, just think it's not much more than a wonderful story.
As to why the guy on that site makes his claims, I suggest you read on. He explains it all.

"Keep the company of those who seek the truth, but run from those who have found it." (Vaclav Havel)

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Sarde
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Message 8 of 15 (89960)
03-03-2004 3:29 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by NosyNed
03-02-2004 4:18 PM


Thanks, Nosy Ned!
Thanks for welcoming me, NosyNed! I've been reading many of your posts with some interest.
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Brad McFall
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Message 9 of 15 (90280)
03-04-2004 12:35 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by Sarde
03-03-2004 3:29 AM


Re: Jesus
It was hard for me to glean your position so I played off of "rejection". Thanks for the clarification.
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Brad McFall
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Message 10 of 15 (90282)
03-04-2004 12:41 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by mike the wiz
03-02-2004 7:38 PM


The physical "logical economy" is wagerable within Christianity but the choice of signs or symbols is or may not be hence via physiology can be felt even if there was no spirit. The "wager" is really only something that I "perceive" historically (which is often the point of view I am "forced" to express here) not in the here and now of LIVING GOD.

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Sarde
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Message 11 of 15 (90286)
03-04-2004 1:16 PM


But that website is really not so much about Pascal's Wager, more about whether or not the claims made by Christianity are reliable.

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Brad McFall
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Message 12 of 15 (90316)
03-04-2004 3:29 PM
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03-04-2004 1:16 PM


I had not participated in the earlier discussion of P's wager and that is why I had focused in on that part of the site.
So you are interested in whether or not they are reliable??
Here is what is NOT reliable (this is "backtracking"): Gouldp800SOET"Rapid evolution in local populations of guppies and anoles illustrates a fascinating phenomenon that teaches us many important lessons about the general process of evolution. But such changes can only be ephemeral unless they then become stabilized in coherent higher-level Darwinian individuals with sufficient stability to participate in macroevolutionary selection. These local populations usually strut and fret their short hour on the geological stage and then disappear by death or amalgamation. They produce the ubiquitous and geologically momentary fluctuations that characterize and embellish the long-term stasis of species. They are, to use Mandelbrot's famous metaphor fractals,...In other words, morphological change correlates so strongly with speciation not because cladogenesis accelerates evolutionary rates but rather because such changes which can occur at any time in the life of a local population, can not be retained and sufficiently7 stabilized to participate in selection without the protection provided by individuation- and speciation, via reproductive isolation, represents nature's preeminent mechanism for generating macroevolutionary individuals. Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather , speciation "gathers in" and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time withihn a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes- to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale- a transient dust storm in the desert of time, passing cloud without borders, integrity or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny."
all the way to "slippage" on the next paragraph I did not quote or alternatively (not necessarily mutually exclusive) to some emprics of inert VS gravitational mass PHYSICALLY.
Now if this IS (The Meaning of Relativity p 113 by A.Einstein "The condition of the above invariance implies that the entire geodesic lies on the axis of rotation and that its points remain invariant under rotation of the coordinated system. This means that the solution shall be invariant with respect to all rotations of the coordinate system around the triple infinity of geodesics." Nowthen Pais asked in 'Subtle is the Lord...'p 143 "Einstein also pointed out that transformations of the type shown in Eq.7.8 form a group, 'wie dies sein muss,' as it should be (He did not expand on this cryptic statement)" and I shant go into this beyond the name of Dawkins I quoted in Gould at this time as this requires a discussion of Physics I have started over on Ned's thread. But that it is I will simply assert. If you reject this then... well that's all I can say todayas to "claim" (where the word probably was "inherence" not 'co'.
But we would need to have an XML controlled c/e vocabulary of the invariant while what we actually have is a glossary/index here.
THERE ARE creationists who are working on Relativity and what Einstein referred to at the end of this BOOOOOOK p132"(9)Last and not least; The age of the universe, in the sense used here, must certainly exceed that of the firm crust of the earth as found from radioactive minerals. Since every determination of age by these minerals is reliable in every respect, the cosmologic theory here presented would be disproved if it were found to contradict any such results. In this case I can see no reasonable solution."
This was not a problem for elementary school but only where secular private interests rest or dont. Gould for one has both the scale and origin in time (not a mere theory of determinant, vector and tensor) while the physiology only gives DNA replication in a cell cycle. But he "hides" legitimately behind the difference of NAMING (grammer) of paleo and bio species.
It seems LESS reliable to me to find a rejection of reliablity by these people (as to belief and inerrancy) when they are proposing in what would be the secular content something in context I continue to maintain as MORE RELIABLE. It is mentally possible that I have the wrong interpretation but it is rather physically unlikely if I am permitted to read the wager through to the present consciousness. It is the law in this land that paid Medicade to "retarded" individuals that revealed unawares (I still must testify that I the "crazy card" can not be "played" in my case) that the human asset is larger than is being accounted for in nomially seperated church and state state. So to state that Christianity is unreliable is mostly done out of ignorance as far as I can tell( meaning to "ignore" it). I expect that IT will gain say this narrative of the relevant logical economics of c/e.
The only reason I can find to find the Christianity "unreliable" is if one simply by PREFERENCE (say without trying to come to terms with Kant's work for a Russel instance)TOTHINK (as Darwin did with respect to KELVIN in this case) of changable RATES (not just change). My work got stalled becuase I DID NOT THINK THIS but only tried to think out what change betwen a reptile and an amphibian amounts to (GOULD's "anole"). I assert this is a LUXURAY that while it may not be against the word of GOD is neutral as to the issue of reliability. This is achieved by other means. For instanc, I know it IS Reliable becuase my lover asserts "rape" and yet forgets or willfully denies (this covers Gould's GOD) the "experience" of reading the BIBLE together from two different languages of origin. I use science to show that this neutrality is physically describable. Pascal simply showed what was logically silly. Einstein knew how to express physically (in words) somewhat in the same note.
What is missing in this thread is how biogeography can interact with triple geodesic infinity. I leave this to Einstein's group"" no matter the physics.So even if the luxurary be affordable intoday's logical economy (this post doubts this not Christianity)there would likely be a means via a new work in taphonomy and not anty-c communications that would detail any entailment. In other words there is "no reasonable solution" once one finds the Bible unreliable. Here solution refers to data, and probablities as well as worldviews.

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Sarde
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Message 13 of 15 (90317)
03-04-2004 3:31 PM


Brad, I'm sure you're saying many sensible things, but it's all way above my head...

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Brad McFall
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Message 14 of 15 (90323)
03-04-2004 3:39 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by Sarde
03-04-2004 3:31 PM


I'll try again tommarrow. It not really this high.

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Sarde
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Message 15 of 15 (90324)
03-04-2004 3:40 PM


Perhaps not, but I know nothing of Physics and English isn't my first language...

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